Are your lessons intentional?
Do you provide immediate feedback to students?
How do you use technology in the classroom to make real world connections?
I know all of the questions above are all questions we have heard before, but have you ever taken the time to actually reflect and improve?
Students need immediate feedback to help them to gain small
successes and understanding. Technology should be the vehicle that teachers
use to make this happen.
Purposeful Tip to Try:
Online quizzes are a great instrument for immediate feedback. Even if all of your students do not have a computer, you can always set a time to take them to a lab or have an online quiz that students can do on your computer. This may be after completing an assignment, or an alternative assignment for a struggling student. This website has been one that I used again and again because it allows you to create FREE online quizzes for students. They can be multiple choice or short answer. The short answer section allows you to have Higher Order questioning.
Create a free quiz now!
Check out a Root Word quiz I created:
This was a simple quiz I created as a basic knowledge quick check.
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Freda,
ReplyDeleteI actually took your word root quiz and plan to use it with my remedial group of 12th graders tomorrow. Funny, I missed an answer only because I was in a hurry. A great lesson for me and a warning to my students before they try it tomorrow.
Thanks for pointing out the site. Would you say it is very user friendly? This weeks assignment has my head spinning. I have definietly wasted more time trying to understand and figure out what I am doing than actually "doing."
Stephanie
Freda,
ReplyDeleteLove the proprofs.com site. What a wonderful tool to provide quick feedback for both students and teachers without the hassle of lugging notebooks or papers home to grade. Thanks for sharing.
Rebecca
I never thought of the online quiz. I have used surveymonkey and given students and teacher an interest/learning survey. Check it out if you have never done so. I love it and you get feedback from the kids in a different way about what they like to do, what they don't, and you can print out and keep the info.
ReplyDeleteMarilyn,
ReplyDeleteWe always use surveymonkey and I find it very useful for an end of year survey for the students to complete about the year. Thanks for posting!
I'm glad you suggested online quizzes. Since I teach multiple subjects, I'd like to create a quiz for each subject I teach. Thanks for giving out the web address to create online quizzes. I will definitely use this website.
ReplyDeleteMarilyn,
ReplyDeleteThanks for online quiz site suggestion! I love the immediate feedback that online quizzes give, not to mention I don't have to take 95 of them home to correct and record. I will being using this thanks.
Jim